Collection: Kate Downie

Kate Downie was born in North Carolina but raised from the age of 7 in Scotland.
She studied at Gray’s School of Art in Aberdeen before travel and residencies took
her to the United States, The Netherlands, France, Japan and Norway.

As a Landscape painter/printmaker she studies the relationship of the human co-
existence/dissonance within nature, often defined by good draughtsmanship and a
sense of movement. Downie has established studios in places as diverse as a
brewery, a maternity hospital, an oil rig and an island underneath the Forth Rail
Bridge. She has taught both in art colleges and universities and has directed major
public and community art projects since 1987.